papers

Publications (31)

cs.CL2026

Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Interactive Potential of Language Model Responses

Indu Panigrahi, Tal August

cs.HC2024

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung +33

cs.HC2026

From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding AI Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman +1

cs.CL2025

Automatic Detection of Research Values from Scientific Abstracts Across Computer Science Subfields

Hang Jiang, Tal August, Luca Soldaini +2

cs.HC2026

Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Designing Personalized Jargon Support for Real-Time Online Meetings

Yifan Song, Yijun Liu, Wing Yee Au +3

cs.HC2026

From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation

Chao Zhang, Yiren Liu, Lunyiu Nie +3

cs.HC2026

TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable

Ziheng Huang, Tal August, Hari Sundaram

cs.CL2024

Mathfish: Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula

Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang +3

cs.HC2026

Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency

Michelle Huang, Violeta J. Rodriguez, Koustuv Saha +1

cs.AI2026

SocialVeil: Probing Social Intelligence of Language Agents under Communication Barriers

Keyang Xuan, Pengda Wang, Chongrui Ye +3

cs.CL2024

Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari +8

cs.HC2024

Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience

Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith +1

cs.CL2025

Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures

Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, Maria Antoniak

cs.SI2021

The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations

David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li +1

cs.HC2026

Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents

K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke +6

cs.CY2025

On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance

K. J. Kevin Feng, Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang +3

cs.CL2025

APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization

Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy +2

cs.AI2026

MultiSessionCollab: Learning User Preferences with Memory to Improve Long-Term Collaboration

Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August +1

cs.CL2023

Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks

Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue +6

cs.HC2025

Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation

Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh +3

cs.CL2021

All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text

Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano +3

cs.HC2024

Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Directed Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers

Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August +2

cs.CL2023

Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication

Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak +4

cs.CY2026

Who Plays Which Role When? Communication Role Dynamics for Peer Recognition and Team Performance Prediction

Yifan Song, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian P Bailey +1

cs.HC2026

Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements

Ziheng Huang, Robin Kar, Hari Sundaram +1

cs.CL2025

Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis

Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August +1

cs.CL2026

FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays

Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher +2

cs.HC2023

The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces

Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52

cs.CL2026

Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization

Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August

cs.HC2022

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg +3

cs.AI2025

Uncertainty in Action: Confidence Elicitation in Embodied Agents

Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed +4